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JJW. TRUEBLOOD. Vehi0le-Ax1e Bv0x.

Patent ed Mar. 2,1880.

N. PETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHEE WASHJNGTON, D, C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VEHICLE-AXLE BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,184, dated Mar ch 2, 1880.

. Application filed January 10, 1880.

To. all whom it may concern: Through the rim of the cap B is passed one Be it known that I, JEREMIAH W. TRUE- end of a tube, said tube extending in an 5 BLOOD, of Bicknell, in the county of Knox, inclined position toward the center of the box, and in the State of Indiana, have invented cerwhere the other end is inserted through a hole 5 tain new and useful Improvements in Vehicletherein.

Wheel Boxes; and I do hereby declare that The collar on the spindle fits in the outer the following isafull,clear, and exact descrippart of the cap against the shoulder I), while 4.0

tion thereof, reference being had to the accomthe end of the hub fits in the cavity 62 of the panying drawings, and to the letters of refercap. 1o ence marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of an axle-box, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth. The hub of the wheel is to be suitably out In order to enable others skilled in the art I out to fit over the tube 0, and two or more to which myinvention appertains to make and screws are passed through the cap B and use the same, I will now proceed to describeits screwed into the hub to hold the cap and box 50 construction and operation, referring to the in place. annexed drawings, in which- Having thus fully described my invention, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved axlewhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by box. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the Letters Patent, is

same. An axle-box and hollow cap B for wheels, 55 A represents the axle-box proper, made in I cast in one piece, and with an opening in the .the usual tapering form to fit an ordinary capand box, which two openings are connected wheeLspindle. At the larger end of the box by an oil-tube, substantially as and for the A is formed a shoulder or offset, a, and from purposes herein set forth. the same extends a hollow cap, B. This cap In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 60' forms a shoulder or offset, 6, at the outer end, have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of and extends a suitable distance beyond the December, 1879. x

The tube 0 forms a means for oiling the spindle without removing the wheel from the spindle, and the outer end of said tube is 5 closed by a screw or other plug, D.

0 same, and then projects outward circumferen- JEREMIAH W. TRUEBLOOJD.

tially, and finally extends toward the other end i Witnesses: of the box sufficiently far to form the annular W. H. JONES,

recess cl, in which the end of the hub fits. J. S. WELLS. 

